Belden, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 20. It lies in ZIP code area 68717. The Survey maps it on the Belden quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,558 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBelden fell from 115 to 113 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 115 | |
| 2020 | 113 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Belden quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Belden between 2001 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belden in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Belden | $15,000 | A barn and farm equipment were destroyed. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belden | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged outbuildings and trees. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Belden | - | Public report of hail measured at 2.50 inch in diameter received via an image on social media. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Belden | - | Public report of hail estimated up to quarter sized mixed in with dime sized hail. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Belden | - | The Cedar County EM reported water over Highway 20 just to the east of Belden. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belden | - | Fire Department reported that a manufactured home was knocked off of its temporary supports and the roof was destroyed. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Belden | - | Highway 20 is closed between 556TH Avenue and Nebraska 57 due to flooding. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Belden | - | Heavy rainfall of 1 to 3 inches in a few hours caused flash flooding near Belden. Water and mud covered several roads. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Coleridge | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Randolph | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Magnet | 14.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hartington | 14.8 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 18.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bow Valley | 20.9 miles | 9 | |
| Obert | 21.3 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Belden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3097310 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 827291. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




